Most of these accidents occur as pedestrians try to evacuate the facility in panic mode. Thus, increasing attention has been given to planning for the evacuation of these facilities by considering of all possible emergencies. The objective is to minimize the period required to evacuate a facility while ensuring the safety of all pedestrians. Evaluation of the effectiveness of an evacuation plan...

Pedestrian crowds often have been modeled as many-particle system including microscopic multi-agent simulators. One of the key challenges is to unearth governing principles that can model pedestrian movement, and use them to reproduce paths and behaviors that are frequently observed in human crowds. To that effect, we present a novel crowd simulation algorithm that generates pedestrian trajecto...

Pedestrians' road-crossing behavior can often interrupt traffic flow and cause vehicles queueing. In this paper, we propose some moving rules for modeling the interaction of vehicles and pedestrians. The modified visual angle car-following model is presented for the movement of vehicles with consideration of the lateral effect of waiting pedestrians. The pedestrians' behavior is summarized as c...

This paper deals with mathematical model of pedestrian flows. We focus here on an “intelligence” of virtual people. From macroscopic viewpoint pedestrian dynamics is already well simulated but from microscopic point of view typical features of people movement need to be implemented to models. At least such features are “keeping in mind” two strategies – the shortest path and the shortest time a...

The calibration and validation of pedestrian simulations require the acquisition of empirical evidences of human behaviour. The current work presents the results of an experiment focused on the potentially combined effect of counter flow and grouping on pedestrian dynamics. In particular, we focused on: (i) four different configurations of flow ratio (the rate between the minor flow and the tot...

In this paper, we propose a combination of pedestrian data collection and analysis and modeling that may yield higher competitive advantage in the business environment. The data collection is only based on simple inventory and questionnaire surveys on a hypermarket to obtain trajectory path of pedestrian movement. Though the data has limitation by using static trajectories, our techniques showe...

Pedestrians' road-crossing behavior can often interrupt traffic flow and cause vehicles queueing. In this paper, we propose some moving rules for modeling the interaction of vehicles and pedestrians. The modified visual angle car-following model is presented for the movement of vehicles with consideration of the lateral effect of waiting pedestrians. The pedestrians' behavior is summarized as c...